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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Rosalind Franklin

Courtesy of Wikipedia Rosalind Franklin (July 25, 1920 – April 16, 1958) was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime, Franklin’s contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA were largely unrecognized during […]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Alan Veingrad

Courtesy of Wikipedia Alan Veingrad (July 24, 1963) is a former American football offensive lineman in the National Football League. Veingrad played for the Green Bay Packers for five seasons and the Dallas Cowboys for two seasons, winning Super Bowl XXVII with the team over the Buffalo Bills. In his career, he played a total of 86 games. Click here to read

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Monica Lewinsky

Courtesy of Wikipedia Monica Lewinsky (July 23, 1973) is an American activist. Lewinsky became internationally known in the late 1990s after U.S. President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an affair with her during her days as a White House intern between 1995 and 1997. The affair and its repercussions (which included Clinton’s impeachment) became known as the Clinton–Lewinsky

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Alan Menken

Courtesy of Wikipedia Alan Irwin Menken (July 22, 1949) is an American composer, best known for his scores and songs for films produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and Skydance Animation. Menken’s music for The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995) have each won him two Academy Awards. He also composed the scores and songs for Little Shop of

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Jon Lovitz

Courtesy of Wikipedia Jonathan Michael Lovitz (born July 21, 1957) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990 for which he was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Outside of SNL, he starred as Jay Sherman in The Critic (1994–1995), has played various roles on The Simpsons (1991–), and

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Courtesy of Wikipedia László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter, photographer, and professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of integrating technology and industry into the arts. The art critic Peter Schjeldahl called him “relentlessly experimental” because of his pioneering work in painting, drawing, photography, collage,

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Howard Schultz

Courtesy of Wikipedia Howard Schultz (July 19, 1953) is an American businessman and author who was the chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, from 2008 to 2017, and interim CEO from 2022 to 2023. Schultz owned the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team from 2001 to 2006. Schultz began working at Starbucks in 1982. He later left and opened Il

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Clifford Odets

Courtesy of Wikipedia Clifford Odets (July 18, 1906 – August 14, 1963) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. In the mid-1930s, he was widely seen as the potential successor to Nobel Prize–winning playwright Eugene O’Neill, as O’Neill began to withdraw from Broadway’s commercial pressures and increasing critical backlash.[2] From January 1935, Odets’s socially relevant dramas were extremely influential,

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Hannah Szenes

Courtesy of Wikipedia Hannah Szenes ( July 17, 1921 – November 7, 1944) was a Hungarian Jewish poet and a Special Operations Executive (SOE) member. She was one of 37 Jewish SOE recruits from Mandate Palestine parachuted by the British into Yugoslavia during the Second World War to assist anti-Nazi forces and ultimately in the rescue of Hungarian Jews about to be deported to the German death camp at Auschwitz.

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Corey Feldman

Courtesy of Wikipedia Corey Feldman (July 16, 1971) is an American actor and musician. As a youth, he became well known for his roles in popular 1980s films such as Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), Gremlins (1984), The Goonies (1985), and Stand by Me (1986). Feldman collaborated with Corey Haim starring in numerous films such as the comedy horror The Lost Boys (1987), the teen comedy License

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Jacques Derrida

Courtesy of Wikipedia Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004) was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in several of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy although

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Scott Rudin

Courtesy of Wikipedia Scott Rudin (July 14, 1958) is an American film, television, and theatre producer. His films include the Academy Award-winning Best Picture No Country for Old Men, as well as Uncut Gems, Lady Bird, Fences, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, School of Rock, Zoolander, The Truman Show, Clueless, The Addams Family, and eight Wes Anderson films. On Broadway,

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Harrison Ford

Courtesy of Wikipedia Harrison Ford (July 13, 1942) is an American actor. He has been a leading man in films of several genres and is regarded as an American cultural icon. His films have grossed more than $5.4 billion in North America and more than $9.3 billion worldwide. Ford is the recipient of various accolades, including the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award,

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Brian Grazer

Courtesy of Wikipedia Brian Grazer (July 12, 1951) is an American film and television producer. He founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986 with Ron Howard. The films they produced have grossed over $15 billion. Grazer was personally nominated for four Academy Awards for Splash (1984), Apollo 13 (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Frost/Nixon (2008). His films and TV series have been nominated for 47 Academy Awards and

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